Unfold image from Pan and Tile

Hmmm this has been boggling me all day…
I’ve got a pan and tile setup (see link)

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3152/picture3h.png

One of the artists here wants to do some Photoshop work on it but there are like 20 images which is a pain for them to edit invividually… so is there a way to "Unfold" the pan and tile setup and save it as one image, that I will then be able to map onto something else later?

Thanks 🙂

The Eco Zoo

Seriously lovely Papervision … very well done: The Eco Zoo.

PSST!3 – new short films

Six more short films uploaded to the PSST!3 site … great animations and illustrations … pass it on.

Compositing Application for Windows

I’m new to the world of compositing and would like to know if there are any other compositing applications in the price range of Combustion or Adobe AF for the Windows platform?

I’m looking to learn motion graphics for broadcasting but would like to learn using an industry standard appliction if possible. I like combustions interface and the fact that it’s node based but I see very little support or training for it. On the other hand, I’m not sure how many post houses and tv stations are using AF but it is well supported.

Any help you can provide would be great.

Thanks

which camera motion type

hi there
i have a problem about scene option..first of all i want to show a picture it’s a dolly move as you see in this picture

i want to tell where is the my problem with this picture..for example dolly tool moves left to right..and camera is static,camera is not turning around..it just comes from left to right..this is the my problem what option do i have to choose in camera motion section..in pftrack i remember there are a lot of option..translation or rotation,linear translation or planar or translation..whats the best option for pftrack ans syntheyes..
thank you…

2d and 3d animation

Hi everyone !
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Click 3X Creates Animated Circus for ‘See You Sunday’ on MTV

[NEWS=”http://www.cgnews.com/wp-content/uploads/mtv_sunday_thumb.jpg”]19279[/NEWS]Embarking on a new creative partnership, Click 3X recently collaborated with MTV to create a show open, packaging, and promos for See You Sunday. Promoting four new shows in their latest block of Sunday programming, the clips incorporate live action footage of high-profile stars with unique hand-drawn animation, explosions, and VFX. To support the shows, Click animated several promos, a :30 opening and cut-down, six bumpers with integrated animation, and two live action bumpers, each playing off traditional images of circus life with high-intensity, parodied versions of classic stunts.

The vibrant animation interacting with the live action created by Click 3X adds depth to the storylines, while supporting the style and humor of the shows.

Targeting the young male demographic with a weekly high energy, must-see event, See You Sunday includes Nitro Circus, a daring stunt show starring Travis Pastrana and Johnny Knoxville, Fantasy Factory, showcasing Rob Dyrdek’s wild skate-based schemes, College Humor, based on the wildly popular website, and How’s Your News, a product of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, which follows five reporters with mental and physical disabilities.

The colorful animation helps to build the mood of each piece with outlandish antics such as animated knife-throwing, bananas brandishing chainsaws, and the carnival’s tall man upstaging all with his powerful rainbow pee-stream.

The :60 promo, Anticipation, features the shows’ stars about to perform in a sideshow complete with human cannonball, tightrope skateboarding, daredevil motorcycle jumps, and face-offs with ferocious lions. The additional animated content created by Click 3X artists follow the same themes, showcasing the bizarre but enthralling, reality-suspending sideshow worlds of the carnival grounds with effects and characters that build on the intrigue surrounding the shows.

Quote:

“Harold, Evan, Thomas, Kris, and the rest of the MTV team were an absolute joy to work with on this project. I know this is a cliché, but this wasn’t work, this was fun. Tom, Erica, and I were in our creative comfort zone for this job creating seamless visual vfx, creative editorial and subversive, psychedelic graphics. In fact, many of the pieces were actually a result of some organic, on-set brainstorming between our teams.” Creative Director/VFX Artist Mark Szumski.


The entire Click team worked extensively with the MTV staff and directors from pre-vis through post, coming up with creative solutions and providing effects expertise on-set and throughout the filming and editorial process. Creative Director/VFX Artist Mark Szumski and VFX Artist/Animator Tom Matheu each spent significant time on set, contributing their expertise.

Shot with both Red and Phantom cameras in an enormous area complete with boxcars and a 30 foot ramp, the team was able to effectively capture the action-packed narrative and set the stage for Click’s animators to go to work. To enhance and heighten the strange, engaging effects on top of the live action, Click artists also added sky replacements, lighting and fire effects, explosion embellishments, and smoke to the range of shots, using Flame to cleanup and composite the layers of each piece and increase the impact of the shots and animated effects.

The See You Sunday block debuted to excellent ratings, helping to secure the crucial target male audience for MTV. EP Connor Swegle notes, “MTV came to us with an amazing concept seeking a creative partner with the ability to collaborate on-set and through editorial, design, and animation. With our involvement so early in the process, we were able to add to the creative flow-this helped create a final product that was successful for the MTV team, the program block, and the network.” Given the success of this project, Click 3X has already signed on to three new ventures for MTV, further expanding a vast body of recent work which includes projects across broadcast, feature films, and interactive.

Quote:

“I was really impressed by the level of dedication that Click 3X showed in helping bring our twisted vision of psychedelic circus train mayhem to life. There was a great sense of collaboration throughout the project, and their enthusiasm and hard work was second to none.” MTV Design Director, Thomas Berger.



About Click 3X:

New York-based Click 3X produces cutting-edge visual solutions for commercials, feature films, television, music videos, and broadcast clients around the globe. Founded in 1993, Click 3X has become one of the preeminent providers of innovative media content, housed in an environment led by artists, yet supported by one of the most technologically advanced digital studios in the industry.

With award-winning design, powerful visual effects, and a visionary animation team, Click 3X has worked on array of diverse highly-recognizable projects, including a series of films from academy-award winning directors like Jonathan Demme and Davis Guggenheim, a recent multimedia package for eight HD Time Warner spots, My Home 2.0, a five episode reality TV series for Verizon Fios, and a long line of recent commercials for major brands such as Sharp, Ford, and Goodyear.

The Creds:
Post/Effects: Click 3X
Creative Director/VFX Artist: Mark Szumski
VFX Artist/Animator: Tom Matheu
Designer/Animator: Erica Gorochow
Managing Director: Jason Mayo
Executive Producer: Connor Swegle
Producer: Christine DoRego

Related Links:
www.mtv.com/ontv/see_you_sunday/

www.click3x.com

How to set the default input in a disabled node group?

Hi, I’m new in Nuke.

I’m creating a group node with two inputs. The problem comes when the node is disabled because I don’t know how to set the input taken as default (like B input for the other disabled nodes). Does anybody know how to do this?

Thank you very much!

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The Mill Scores With The Damned United

[NEWS=”http://www.cgnews.com/wp-content/uploads/damned_clough_thumb.jpg”]19275[/NEWS]The Mill, working with BBC Films has recently completed work on the critically acclaimed ‘The Damned United’. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by David Pearce and adapted for screen by Peter Morgan, (The Queen and Frost/Nixon) the film was directed by the award winning Tom Hooper (Longford and John Adams). The Damned United plays out the humorously dark story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as the manager of the reigning champions of English football in the 70’s, Leeds United.

Starring Michael Sheen (The Deal, The Queen, Frost/Nixon) as the legendary Brian Clough, Timothy Spall (Secrets and Lies, Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd) as his friend and assistant Peter Taylor and Jim Broadbent (Bridget Jones, The Young Victoria, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) plays the Derby Chairman, Sam Longson, Clough’s former boss.

Quote:

Will Cohen, Group Director Mill Film, said; “We have a great working relationship with Tom and we were incredibly excited to have the opportunity to be involved with The Damned United. It was a fun and challenging experience to recreate the interior of the iconic Wembley Stadium from the early 70s as well as creating the Massive Crowd scenes”.


About The Mill
The Mill is a world-leading visual effects company with bases in the globe’s three most important advertising centres – London and New York and now Los Angeles. The Mill has worked on some of the most memorable visual effects projects in the world (including Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ for which it gained a VFX Oscar) and has won more awards for visual effects than any other facility in Europe, including work on Johnnie Walker ‘Human’, Sony ‘Balls’, Sony Playstation ‘Mountain’ and Honda ‘Cog’.

The Mill has built relationships with the industry’s finest directors including Chris Cunningham, Frank Budgen, Fredrik Bond, Ringan Ledwidge and Michel Gondry. Data Grading suites have been installed in the London and NY offices bringing movie best practise to our clients and making The Mill the only facility ‘data’ grading for commercials.

The Damned United Cast:
Brian Clough – Michael Sheen
Peter Taylor – Timothy Spall
Don Revie – Colm Meaney
Manny Cussins – Henry Goodman
Jimmy Gordon – Maurice Roeves
Sam Longson – Jim Broadbent
Billy Bremner – Stephen Graham
Dave Mackay – Brian McCardie
Johnny Giles – Peter McDonald
Colin Todd – Giles Alderson
John O’Hare – Martin Compston
Duncan McKenzie – Joe Dempsie
Barbara Clough – Elizabeth Carling
Lillian Taylor – Gillian Waugh

Credits:
Producer: Andy Harries.
Executive producers: Christine Langan, Hugo Heppell, Peter Morgan.
Co-producers, Grainne Marmion, Lee Morris.
Directer: Tom Hooper
Screenplay: Peter Morgan (based on the 2006 novel “The Damned Utd” by David Peace)
Camera : Ben Smithard (color, Panavision widescreen)
Editor: Melanie Oliver
Music: Rob Lane;
Music supervisor: Liz Gallacher
Production designer: Eve Stewart
Supervising art director: Andrew Holden-Stokes
Art director: Leon McCarthy
Costume designer: Mike O’Neill
Sound (Dolby Digital): Martin Beresford, Paul Hamblin
Visual effects supervisor: David Bowman
Visual effects: the Mill
Special effects supervisor: Paul Kelly
Assistant director: Martin Curry